Enjoying the new SJ season, but there are a few things that have

>>91057243
There's really not that much to defend, imo. It's a cartoon. Yes, it takes itself seriously sometimes, but it's still just visual art. The blood on Jack was probably made either as a metaphor or just because it looked stylish and cool. The voice problem is just a shortcut they took so they could make the scene as it is. I haven't noticed any glaring errors in editing that really stuck out, either.

>>91057243
Lower budget and/or more rushed production.

>>91057243
>Where did all those other cuts even come from? They weren't out all present in the temple scene from episode 2.

River.

>>91057611
Water can't cut you.

>>91057611
>>91057636
rocks in the river

>>91057611
This >>91057636

Even then, those looked more like cuts from knives then cuts from debris in the river.

>>91057526
Probably. They're making what they got worthwhile, though.

>>91057465
It being visual art doesn't really excuse it from being out of place and awkward. And shortcuts don't really excuse anything, either.

>>91057636
yeah, but there were rocks and the log probably splintered

>>91057243
>Episode 2 also features Jack looking off at something after having his dagger he got from Scaramouche kicked off, and then cuts to him having some of his hair cut off out of nowhere. What was the point of showing Jack just standing there doing nothing?
Nigga, he barely had any time to react.

>>91057731
And? That doesn't excuse the editing of just his face and then doing a 360 cut to his hair getting cut off.

>>91057611
>>91057636
>>91057693
Those cuts came from nearly the entirety of activity in Episode 2. Yes the stab wound was from the end but you don't get every bad-end moment of action Jack suffered in episode 2 without scrapes and bruises. Seriously they violent stripped him. He nearly died in that sarcophagus, or the time he tripped down a pile of stone rubble, all of the various hits, etc etc etc

>>91057731
OP doesn't even know that "do nothing" is like 50% of a Samurai Jack episode's runtime.

>>91057243
>Why did Jack have blood all over him when he was in the cave when the blood was only coming from his waist
It's called artistic license.

>>91057819
You mean the scene the shows him not see his attacker but sense the incoming swing and dodge away getting his beard cut in the process?

The close in face shot shows there's no focus on any individual attacker while also showing he's trying to detect, see, hear, feel his attackers. Next shot is right in line with that, a fraction of a heartbeat later when he reacts on some data non-visual and avoids the blade.

rip beard

>critically overthinking a cartoon

When did /co/ become /v/

>>91057243
I don't agree with any of these.

Episode 2 was a symphony of hits and injuries.

You assume he was in the snow when he was talking before the blinding white snow/fog rolled in. You however don't know where he is. The storyteller didn't feel you worthy to know and kept you as ignorant as the sisters. Was he always there? Did he move in after the fact? He's Jack.

This cartoon can be as much about what isn't shown as what is.

And the closeup to beard dodge shot was already explained. He was searching but failing to see. He wasn't just standing there doing nothing. He was getting blitzed and trying to find bearing, perch in the chaos. He barely got that beard dodge off and that was without seeing her strike start.

>>91058063
Stop acting like because it fits a certain form of entertainment then it shouldn't be taken seriously and criticized as being serious. Cartoons can have a lot of effort and thought put into them.

Why shouldn't you think about it? Because it's a cartoon and that somehow invalidates anyone who says that it's mediocre?

>>91058063
Shut up faggot.

>>91057611
I thought the cuts were just from ep2 and illuminated for cinematographic effect

>>91057243
almost everything you posted was for the sake of art
shitty and convenient excuse, I know, but Samurai Jack was /always/ a series made for cinematography and artistic visuals
SJ is a show made by Art degree majors, for Art degree majors. Always has been

>>91058735
They could have fixed a lot of it in episode 3 if they had a style progression. Start with the extra stylization they did with the blood and Jack's blue man (for example show him floating in the river in a very stylized way, like a red blob in a dark blue stream or whatever, I don't art) and then the more he heals, the more the show returns to its normal stylization.

It was just too inconsistent, but still the episode is very good so it's just nitpicking.

>>91057243
>That fog seemed WAY to convenient
Jack has spirit powers, the spirits of his ancestors protect him.

>>91058322
the key word was OVERanalizing

Did these things become a detriment to your enjoyment of the show? If not, you're nitpicking for the sake of finding something wrong.

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>>91058063
>sane people saying this on a cartoon/comic discussion board

>>91058895
What is over analyzing to you?

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>>91057243
Why do you autists over analyze shit that isn't even important?

>>91057243
>That fog seemed WAY to convenient
They are next to a river. Bodies of water tend to produce lots of fog at times.

>>91057243
The editing has /always/ been like that in Samurai Jack, you poser.

Everything else is a stylistic choice.

The blood all over him is easily explainable as a mental thing between jack and the wolf

there is a mega of the new episode ?

>>91060317
bump neeed one too

>>91060317
>>91060510

https://mega.nz/#!RqpBWSwQ!RU6Zqhit7Qj0OBe8Iue_hwDFNBW0AAJ4_1tMsRqrCV4

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>>91060317
>>91060510
>>91060614

Bigger res.

https://mega.nz/#!L91AybwD!dpN0n-R7-ldTByyCliCbID9WzBzXuCp0NklBIlm2oF0

>>91060614
>>91060649

thank you man

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>>91060649
>1080p bigger than 1080p

The answer to literally all of those points is stylistic choice

>>91058930
/v/ in a nutshell.

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>>91060684
I just check'd the file size, senpai.

It's called art lads, are you so autistic that you need to analyse the beauty out of everything? The fog, the snow and the blood weren't mistakes or issues, they were stylistic choices because they look fucking cool.

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>>91059537
this. SJ has always been big on metaphors and style. if these things are bugging you enough to the point where you need to make a post about it on /co/, you shouldn't be watching the show at all.

you guys will bitch about anything

>>91060684
>>91060649
Is there a blog or RSS feed to keep up with this somewhere?

I can't believe anyone would complain that the environment in an action series is too convenient

>>91057243
I think the budget is just REALLY REALLY low. That's why we are seeing so many small, amateurish animation errors. They probably don't have the budget for poses / correcting poses

>>91060946
anyone?

Hilarious to see autists try and reconcile stylizations in a hyper-stylized action cartoon as if it was some documentary. Samurai Jack has always, ALWAYS put style above realism, that's the whole point. That's why it's a cartoon and not live action.

>>91057703
Knife cuts are deeper and bleed much more. Debris will inflict several shallow/inconsequental scrapes

>>91057243
Just stop watching cartoons

Itll sound like a cop out but I let a lot of that shit fly right under the radar because I think of it more from an artistic standpoint.

very little in the sj universe looks or acts like its supposed to. things that arent geometrical are, color blend or dont in backgrounds in weird ways. Arguably than half the spectacle of SJ is the visuals. So a little bit of "that wouldnt really happen" or "how does that work" seems really pointless when wrapped up in the imagery or artistic presentation of it all.

and would you really have enjoyed it more, if say jacks voice was muffled in the snow and you couldnt understand what he was saying?

It maybe lazy writing, but you can afford to be lazy with certain things

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>>91061162
I\m getting them from Kametsu forum.

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>>91057636
>Ten most amazing anime swords

>>91059294
Not him, but over analizing is basically nitpicking beyond the point of common sense. A cartoon can be well thought out and put togther and still have a few glithces because, surprise, no matter how good a thing is, people who makes them are human and thus not perfect.

>>91061557
It's possible to do it without hating the show or turning it into a "LOL THE ANIMATORS MUST BE STUPID" gotcha moment. Some people just analyze things because it's fun, or to come up with justifications for various fanon theories.

>>91057243
Rule of cool.

Thankfully Genndy owns it.

>>91061448
thanks, I found that the download led to a guy on tumblr making the downloads and made an RSS feed from there

>>91057243
I kinda felt like Jack turned things around too easily. I mean, he's running scared and barely escaping every encounter with the Daughters in Episode 2, and then he chills with the wolf bro, remembers what his father taught him, and then he can take them all on at once. He even deliberately throws away his weapon to take the last three on barehanded!

But that was just my knee-jerk sentiment. He'd been ambushed and surprised by their skill, and he spent the whole time desperately trying to get his bearings. They still weren't really a match for him: he disarmed and killed the first one to engage him in single combat. Once he'd cleared his head, focused, and arranged a fight on his own terms, the odds were back in his favor. He wiped out half of them in his initial ambush, and then when he tired he drew them onto the fallen tree where they were forced to approach single-file so that he could handle the remainder individually, knowing his personal strength and skill was greater than theirs.

>>91057243
Those are flat out nitpicks. What bothers me is in episode three when jack has the bat and is looking at the surviving sisters, one of them is the bat sister, even though right after its shown the only surviving sisters are daggers, chain, and spear.

>>91063350
senpai the flashback jack explains the whole fight he was holding back because he's afraid to kill a human. Once he knows they can't be convinced otherwise he goes right into Jack mode. It didn't bother me too much because in the Bounty Hunters episode he fights basically the greatest fighters in the world and defeats them in three sword swipes, and that was in an environment he couldn't control. I could imagine if he led Aku into a trap even he would basically be fucked.

>>91063350
Basically this. Jack's skills being superior to everyone else's is a staple of the show, with their being multiple occasions where he has been "defeated" by others, only for him to have the upper hand once he figures out what fight he is actually having. The single time we have met an entity capable of defeating a Jack fighting under his own term was the Guardian, and that was because the Guardian exists solely to be OP against pretty much everything else (although, the whole no more paths home makes me wonder if he was finally offed, but I can't imagine that being the case).

That said, anyone else got annoyed by the lack of mystery in the presentation? There was no purpose on revealing the nature and past of the Daugthers, nor how Jack lost his sword in the blatant manner they did. Jack has always been about subtlety combined with movement of high octane action, and watching Jack be surprised by the killing of the first daugther while we already knew she was human pretty much robbed it of any impact to me. Same with the sword.

Personally, I would have preferred if episode 2 had revealed the sword to be gone by the Daughters trying to take it from him, revealing a useless sword in the scabbard, and the backstory of the Daughters shown in episode 3, as we approach their defeat and now know they are humans skilled enough to almost kill Jack. This way the missing sword, the first daughter, and the fight with the others all carry more weight.

And, as a personal preference, I would have like the wolf's fight and the Jack fight to have interlaced more, but that's really not an improvement.

So Jack can kill Aku, right? It just didn't seem possible even with the sword. He always got away after being slashed enough.

>>91064032
Considering his father failed to kill Aku for whatever reason, I think Aku is basically like Ganon in that he{ll always come back once he gets unsealed.

>>91063637
>senpai the flashback jack explains the whole fight he was holding back because he's afraid to kill a human.
Except he didn't know they were humans in Episode two until he already had a knife in his gut.

>>91059537
Its not that its not important. It's that they can't infer anything.

>>91061080
>amateurish animation errors
Said the artless /co/ faggot. What are you simps complying about really? Complaining does not equal criticism.

>>91057243
not about these problems but since we dont have a fucking samurai jack general im posting it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30yZI_g-OxE
this was made by a fan.its surprisingly similar to the original series.

>>91064699
>this was made by a fan
Not sure if bait

Holy shit are people really freaking about SAMURAI JACK being heavily stylized and not utterly literal with its visuals?

The fuck is wrong with you people?

It LOOKS COOL thats all it is.

>>91065223
This. Rule of cool and rule of weird rule samurai jack.

so where are people getting the episodes for this from? I mean we've got nyaa.se for pretty much anything eastern so forgive me for being out of the know here.


or did everyone just watch it as it was streamed.

>>91066293
ah I feel stupid as I had scrolled past it in this very thread.

>>91066293
could you please be less of a cringey newfag you filthy weeaboo? lurk moar

>>91066293
There are mega links in this very thread.

Also, anyone else bothered about how the Daughters seemed to pull the weapons out of their ass? Or how the white forest got no foreshadowing? Something as simple as jack looking at the weather and leading them on until it look favorable would have done it.

In general, the Daughters were a waste, although I guess there's still more that could be done with the rest. I don't think those three died.

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anyone got e03 edit?

>>91066445
yeah I mentioned that in my next post, I had scrolled past them the first time.
>>91066347
I'd take the advice seriously if this whole site wasn't a parody of itself at this point.

>>91066476
There was one in one of the many threads there is up right now.

>>91057243
>>Some of the art is janky. Why did Jack have blood all over him when he was in the cave when the blood was only coming from his waist? Was it an illusion or something? Where did all those other cuts even come from? They weren't out all present in the temple scene from episode 2.


A stylish choice to depict his fragmented and vulnerable psyche, as well the Dog's.

The only janky thing here is your analysis.

>>91057243
Was it me or in the first episide it felt like they cut some of that fight between Jack and scatting robot? He thrown that dagger at him and then suddenly after the explosion he got a giant sword while the robot just await his death defeated.

>>91066811
Yeah, I found that weird as well. It really makes it look like that.

Mega's for the other episodes?

Also, anyone else noticed they duplicated the kusarigama wielding one by mistake?

The largest problem I had is how easily he solved the murder conundrum. He's feverish, he feels like shit, then he remembers something his dad told him 60 years ago and he's OK.

I fully expected the episode would be through feverish nightmares and visions and the actual showdown to be ep 4, but I guess not

>>91066811
Look at the robot's neck. There's been little errors her and there, but you'll see that his neck is fucked up.

>>91067132
Ditto'ing this. I need to re-watch the second episode.

>no thick flail waving fish girl this season
Why live?

>>91067596
>>91067132
thirding this, the links that we had have been taken down. is there a better source for this?

>>91069616
It's still up for streaming, as far as I know.

>>91070142
where at? I can't get the adult swim stream to load but is there somewhere else?

>>91070249
Watchcartoononline had working streams last time I checked,

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>>91063350
>He even deliberately throws away his weapon to take the last three on barehanded!
I just got that he drops the club because he needs balance.

>>91057243
Holy fuck it's like you're trying to hate this show to seem superior.
>why di blod?
Because it's symbolism faggot, can't you deduce the style behind it?
>sound design en reelism
It's a cartoon about a Samurai that resembles the Edo period fighting an evil wizard who sends him into a future that he's spent 50 years in and unchanged by time and you're concerned about sound realism?
>di foag?
Same two reasons as above
>di hayre?
Stylistic combat faggot.
Did you fail literature and English courses in high school and college? It's imagery, mood, symbolism, hyperbole, overall fancy ways of conveying fiction. This isn't an animated depiction of anthologies written in a Samurai's diary, this is a Gen Z kids show full of action, sci-fi, and fantasy picked up to finish the story arc.

>>91063350
>oh yeah, Jack should spend the rest of the series trying to fight these bitches because it's not like he's an overseasoned warrior stuck doing the same shit learning how to swiftly adapt and fighting formidable enemies for 50 years...

>>91057243
>That fog seemed WAY to convenient.
>Why did Jack have blood all over him when he was in the cave when the blood was only coming from his waist?
Because it looks cool, you nitpicking autist.

>>91070689
He's right about the fog, though. As cool as it looked, it stops just being something cool to look at when its clear they intent to show Jack is using it to his advantage. The fog allowed him to kill at least 2 of them, which, fine is fine, but it could have used better foreshadowing.

The nitpick about the blood is just pure autism, though.

New season is damn grace from God but it has animation errors up the ass.

You could make a game out of trying to spot the error.

>>91070750
Guess it had to have something from these generation of cartoons.

>>91070881
It's like when Goku takes off his weighted training clothing for the first time. Jack free to kill is an unstoppable machine.

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>>91057243
Friendly reminder that Aku was right all along

>>91057243

Nigga you dumb.

>>91057243
>fog
>blood
because it fucking looks cool
AKA what this guy said >>91057862
In other words, common sense.

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Man, I wish Jack could've kept his sick armor.

>>91071555
>old jack had nothing but a kimono and a sword
>he loses the sword
>covers himself from head to toe in armor symbolizing his insecurity

I love it

I never got the opportunity to watch samurai jack as a kid, Should I watch the first 4 seasons before going for the fifth or can I jump right into it and watch the other episodes later

>>91072209
You should watch the first 3 episodes from the first season and then The Birth of Evil at least.

or you could just watch everything to truly understand how great Samurai Jack is.

>>91072209
Just watch a few to get a basic understanding of the atmosphere and feel for the show

There isn't many plot points you need to remember, but knowing certain characters may help in case they decide to bring a few of them back

>>91072425
>in case they decide to bring a few of them back
TV Guide descriptions already tells about the Scottman, he really should just watch everything.

>>91072209
>>91072396
>>91072425
For the last time, don't be a bandwagoning hypefag and
WATCH EVERYTHING
The series aren't even that long and even the arguably weakest episodes are pretty great.
S5 will be much less enjoyable without watching the whole thing.

>>91057243

it's samurai jack, it's always been kind of dumb despite its awesomeness

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>>91064699
>this was made by a fan
I mean I guess Genndy is probably a fan of his own work.

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I may have laughed aloud when Jack - bearded, long-haired, nearly nude, and conspicuously stabbed in the side - literally did a Christ Air over the waterfall.

>>91074965
honestly this episode had allot of good chuckle worthy
that pic, the frog, mad jacks wacky design and the chain drop
that legit cliff hanger too

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>>91057611
They werent actual cuts

I think that frog was voiced by Seth Green.

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>>91075569
>resoloution

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>>91075618
hair

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>>91075689
too lazy to remove bugs
to fit rez left annoying white part to be covered by taskbar

>>91075575
I disagree. Considering the didn't show all the smaller cuts he got from this fight with the Daugthers, I will say all those smaller cuts were intended to be seen as also being from the previous fight, but for convinience weren't shown.

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>>91074965

the first half of the episode was literally punching us in the face with Jesus symbolism.

>Jesus hairstyle and beard on Jack
>Stab wound on side like Jesus in Crucifixion
>Goes over waterfall, is baptized in waters
>Goes in to cave as old conflicted Jack
>Emerges from cave as new, Unconflicted Jack

We're literally seeing Jack being reborn. Also (Maybe head-cannon) I think Jacks healing process is supposed to be over the course of 3 days, same time it took for Jesus.

>>91077863
You're projecting anon.

>>91077956
Nah, He's legit here.

Also, Jack floats downriver in a crucifix pose. When people posted this before the ep, several anons commented that it seemed to be Christ-like imagery.

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I don't think the point was human versus robot killing. Not exactly. Jack was already in internal conflict over his methods even in the context of robot killing. Having to reassure himself it would be alright, and that everything he'd done was just against robots anyway. He was clearly already harboring doubts about his path. The human vs robot thing was more to highlight his doubt than a morality play of robot killing versus human killing.

The last three episodes were about him finding his resolve again.

>>91066214
Not so much either. Samurai Jack has ALWAYS been about visual storytelling. Distorting realism is a good way to highlight certain things. It doesn't have to be presented logically. It has to be presented in a way that makes it's point.

I kind of like it, myself. Anyone who has ever seen the original run wouldn't be bitching now because they'd be used to the method of storytelling.

>>91077863
>Also (Maybe head-cannon) I think Jacks healing process is supposed to be over the course of 3 days, same time it took for Jesus.
I went and checked. While the time scale is unrealistic - three days is clearly too little to heal a knife wound - between Jack and the Daughters we the the viewers are visually shown three day/night cycles.

>>91070479
Yes, he clearly lured them in to the situation for that exact purpose.

>>91078258
What the fuck am I looking at? It looks pretty great , but I can't help but think it's a SJ stylized Kill la Kill picture.

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>>91072052
>>91072052
Also started hording different weapons. When he gets his confidence back and beats all the daughters he has a chance to take the chain sickle or even any of the other weapons but he let's it all go instead, he's also been stripped of his armor but that happened over the course of a episode 2 as well.

>>91064607
if you have to ask youre a piece of shit anyways